Local Wildlife

We've been encountering quite a lot of wildlife in the back garden recently. There has always been plenty of birds there - including a black bird that is breeding for a second time next to our porch and some blue tits who have breeded twice this year.

I caught on camera just outside my home office a chaffinch with a beak full of food for some young i assume as you can see below.



At night i have seen a fox wander round the front of the house at about 10.30pm. This evening by the back door I found this dead bat - i've never seen a bat close up before - we can see them flying around the house at dusk but they are too quick to see. I was surprised at how small this was. It was surrounded by mice droppings which isn't great!


I also remembered what the rare tree was in Foxdell wood - well I think I have its a Wild Service Tree - i've never heard of it!